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Sunday, April 19, 2009

PARTY, FISHING, FAMILY & MUD PUDDLES!

This weekend, we went to Booneville for Will Chittom's
first birthday party. He was a precious little birthday boy!

After the party, we went to Grandaddy & Nana's house.
Reed, of course, had a great time! He absolutely adores the
ground that Uncle Jack walks on! He jumped on a
trampoline, went fishing in the pond, got a little
muddy, and had a blast!

After his nap, he went over to Uncle Michael and
Aunt Shelley's house to play with Katelyn.
He had a blast and loved saying "Michael!"
He kept saying it over and over again. Thanks
Uncle Michael and Aunt Shelley for the yummy food!

Sunday morning, we went to Church then spent some time
with that precious Knox! He is the sweetest little angel!
Here are a lot of pictures from the fun weekend:

Will opening his present from Reed.

Will's cute Big Brother t-shirt. He is going
to be a great big brother!

Reed watching Will open his presents. I was
so proud of him because he didn't try to open
any of Will's presents.

Sweet Katelyn trying out Will's swing!

Katelyn leaning in for a big kiss!

Reed was very patient through opening presents,
but he had his eyes on Will's four-wheeler. When
everyone went to the table for cake. He made
his break for the four-wheeler!

The birthday boy digging into the yummy cake!

Once Reed got on the four-wheeler, he didn't
want to get off. He is obsessed with watching the
tires and loves to run into things, so he can
watch the tires spin out...All boy!
Reed had so much fun jumping with Uncle Jack
and Easton! The bigger boys were so great with him!

Look at that awesome jumper!

Check out his hair...

He would climb up this ladder and jump off onto
the trampoline. It made us nervous, but he did great!

He shoots, and he scores!

Reed testing the pond water.

Jack, Easton, and Daniel catching clams. Reed
wanted and tried to get in the pond to help them,
but his mean Momma said "No way!"
So, he settled for fishing. He held onto that pole
the entire time. I was afraid he was going to
drop it in the water, but he didn't.
Reed & Lucky

Reed was getting off the pier to go help the
big boys with the clams again and landed into
a lot of mud. He was covered in mud, so his Daddy
had to wash him off.
He went straight back to fishing. He is a multi-tasker
because he was fishing and petting Lucky at the same time!

Reed was so sweet to Knox. He says his name so
good too. Grandaddy got Knox out of his car seat
to change his diaper. When Reed came back into the
kitchen and saw that the car seat was empty, he said
"Where's Knox? He's gone, gone!"
Reed and Uncle Jack

Reed and Knox having a conversation.

Aren't they sweet?

Reed giving Knox some sugar!

Precious boys!

Uncle Chris loving on Knox. When Chris held
Knox for the first time, Knox looked at him like
'You sure do look like my Momma!'
Reed decided he needed to crawl into Daddy's
lap too. He didn't want Knox getting all of his Daddy's love.
Last night, Reed was dying to go outside, but
we kept telling him that it was raining, so he couldn't.
He kept saying "I cocs, I cocs," I know that sounds
bad, but that is what he calls his Crocs. After
it quit raining, we decided what the heck, and let
him go play outside!

He had a blast jumping into the mud puddles
and running through them. He jumped high in this picture.

Look at those pants!

Check out how high he is in this picture:

Look at all the mud!

Splish, Splash!

Getting ready to jump again.

We finally got him stripped down, so we could
rinse him off, and he took off running back to the puddles.

Getting rinsed off to go inside...

Here is a video, so you can see some of the action:




4 comments:

m.e. said...

He is so cute and has grown! Take care. We miss y'all :)

THE CHITTOMS said...

I was so happy that you guys made it to Will's party :). We really enjoyed you being there! I love the picture of my baby Will with his cake - he had such a great day - my little doll :)!

Reed, you are cute stuff even in mud; what a fun momma and daddy you have! I also love the pictures of you and your sweet cousins and uncle jack; you are a precious little man! We can't wait for the big party this weekend! Love you!

Tina said...

I have had so much fun looking at this post!
It looks like sweet Will had a wonderful party!
I laugh out loud looking at the fishing pictures! They are priceless!
Of course I love, love, love the pictures of Reed with Knox. They were toooooo sweet! Good sugar!
IIII want to come play in the puddles! That looked like too much fun!

Anonymous said...

There is nothing so great as jumping in the mud. You surely got a great shot when you got the mud flying up. loved it. I had to bring up all the shots on that sweet loving between Reed and Knox. Knox was ready to do a little lovin', too. Such an interesting bunch of pictures. It was good to go to my new buddy, Will's birthday party. Just wonderful the whole blog. Now that Reed made it official I sign off as Grandmama